There is something Mumbai has against wall paint. There is something we like about the concept of letting layer upon layer of grime, fungus and disease accumulate on the walls of our homes, offices, shops and establishments. We always hear about Indian streets and stairwells. How both are lined first with dirt, and then with… [Read more…]
December 26, 2011
Let me begin with a parallel. Ms. Rowling wrote 7 Harry Potter books. Their popularity made her one of the richest people in the UK. But that’s the aside. The real story is how she made a mockery of every pundit predicting that the age for children and adults consuming printed books and literature is… [Read more…]
January 15, 2011
It is so sad, that to almost everyone I meet who knows his name, Springsteen is the good-looking, young bloke from the 70′s who sang loud pop-rock classics like Born to Run, Badlands and Dancing in the Dark. And with each passing year, the fact that he is one of the greatest American song-writers, gets… [Read more…]
November 22, 2010
Something stirs from within us, whenever we protest. There is a tranformation, a certain change, in every protestor’s expression, her manner, her being. The descriptors are many, but language is but a substitute. For this one verb which makes us so very human. For every Aung San Suu Kyi, there is a man who blows… [Read more…]
July 8, 2009
One of the best tributes to Springsteen I have heard in a long, long time. Felt a deep passage of time.
August 21, 2007
A Death In The Family It is the end of a generation. As if all of us, suddenly passed on, into a land where we were no longer children, where we no longer had an imagination, where we could no longer say we were, truly, alive. The Boy Who Lived was mortal after all. And… [Read more…]
January 28, 2007
Why is that psychometric tests seem to ask you to take a stand about who you are and then consistently defend it? Why is that psychology today still seems so intent on finding that critcal narrative which unravels a person’s mysteries. At this point in my life, it seems to me that our everyday experiences… [Read more…]
February 5, 2012
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